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Golgo13 on "A paradoxical obserservation"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6973&page=2#post-19146
Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:12:37 +0000Golgo1319146@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Well it's our thing, so we have strong opinions. I like listening to music, but I don't play any instrument...I don't think my tastes are that refined, so I don't get into arguments about which band is better...your favourite band could well be better than mine...same for food, football, politics, art...I am a "consumer" with an appreciation of what I like, and an awareness that I may be out of step with mainstream thinking on these things...so I tend to keep my opinions to myself because I'm not 100% convinced that I could really defend them against someone who cared.</p>
<p>But comedy? For some reason I think I <em><u>know</u></em> what is good, and that there is some absolute hierarchy of wit, of which I am a qualified arbiter. Humour's obviously a matter of taste, but somehow I find myself telling people (usually just in my head) "No. NoNoNoNo...You are wrong. Very wrong...That is <em>not</em> funny. It is drivel. I am right about this."</p>
<p>You like different music/food/art? Fine. You like "inferior" comedy? I don't want to know you. Don't come near me.</p>
<p>I hope that my own partial awareness of this issue I have is the beginning of a path to recovery.
</p>Svendo on "A paradoxical obserservation"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6973&page=2#post-19139
Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:20:56 +0000Svendo19139@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Getting back to original topic I'm currently feeling the serious side of humour. I've started doing stand-up and I've had many a sleepless night lying awake analysing my material to the nth degree trying to decide if it's funny or not. I think the problem is that I've been writing the material for about a year and so I've read it that many times the surprise of the punchline isnt there anymore and I get paranoid about it. </p>
<p>I have to say posting on here isn't helping me. I've only been on here a few weeks but I've already learned not to get upset when something I thought was genuinely funny gets zero response. it doesn't stop me having a secret sulk though...
</p>Des Custard on "A paradoxical obserservation"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6973&page=2#post-19137
Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:55:38 +0000Des Custard19137@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>He should be.
</p>rickwestwell on "A paradoxical obserservation"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6973&page=2#post-19134
Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:08:38 +0000rickwestwell19134@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Turf?
</p>Des Custard on "A paradoxical obserservation"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6973&page=2#post-19098
Fri, 25 Jun 2010 08:02:13 +0000Des Custard19098@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Certified?
</p>theumpire on "A paradoxical obserservation"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6973&page=2#post-19057
Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:38:46 +0000theumpire19057@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Thanks for the flounce everyone - we feckin' accountants like a good flounce.
</p>MrChigleysAunt on "A paradoxical obserservation"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6973&page=2#post-19026
Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:42:53 +0000MrChigleysAunt19026@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Both feet safely on the ground.
</p>sauce on "A paradoxical obserservation"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6973&page=2#post-19016
Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:00:31 +0000sauce19016@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Which floor are you on, Aunty?
</p>MrChigleysAunt on "A paradoxical obserservation"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6973#post-18934
Thu, 24 Jun 2010 08:44:13 +0000MrChigleysAunt18934@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>And Sauce, your use of 'hon' set me off laughing again about a Milton Jones line. "I came home last night and said to my wife, 'hello hun'. It's not that we have pet names for each other or anything, it's just that she's German."
</p>MrChigleysAunt on "A paradoxical obserservation"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6973#post-18933
Thu, 24 Jun 2010 08:43:36 +0000MrChigleysAunt18933@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>If you're suggesting that I take humour seriously I shall have to ask you to step outside.
</p>sauce on "A paradoxical obserservation"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6973#post-18886
Thu, 24 Jun 2010 06:10:15 +0000sauce18886@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Moptop speaketh immense sense. </p>
<p>Plucky, hon, you come across as hyper-sensitve, self-absorbed and assuming every remark is aimed, in some way, at you. </p>
<p>And humour is a very serious business: it makes (or loses) £££. All the stand-up clubs, the radio, the tv and films: £££. So no wonder most tv is so crap; it's all decided on by fecking accountants - "This'll draw the maximum demographic" - yes because it's purile arsedribble that even my hamster could understand.
</p>PluckyMunky on "A paradoxical obserservation"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6973#post-18859
Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:54:34 +0000PluckyMunky18859@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Yes, you are right, of course, Dr Moptop, thanks. I respect your comments a great deal. I have managed to 'pass' as fairly normal for about 40 years, so I suppose there is no reason to stop now. This is not the time or the place to discuss these things.</p>
<p>Dickens or Shakespeare, I don't quite know what your beef is with me but I think, if you look back, I have contributed a number of fairly succesful subs and at one time managed to engage in some reasonably interesting chat in this room.
</p>Doctor Moptop on "A paradoxical obserservation"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6973#post-18854
Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:36:00 +0000Doctor Moptop18854@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Plucky, I refer you to my previous answer last time it all got heated - two weeks ago, was it?</p>
<p>Post subs, have fun, do not look for anonymous strangers on a website to validate your personality.</p>
<p>In regard to your poor mental health: I have been working recently with people who have severe mental health issues and all they want is to be treated as normal members of society. They do not use their mental health status either to evoke sympathy, excuse behaviour or to guilt-trip other people.</p>
<p>If you find that the chat room banter (pleasant, aggressive or passive-aggressive) is proving detrimental to your mental health then perhaps your default option should be to avoid it, in order to protect your well-being?</p>
<p>That, of course, is your choice. </p>
<p>However, as a disinterested party, I find using your poor mental health status repeatedly in this manner (above) is in as much poor taste as the behaviour of those who bait you. There isn't a Rizla paper between you ...
</p>Dickens or Shakespeare on "A paradoxical obserservation"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6973#post-18852
Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:30:18 +0000Dickens or Shakespeare18852@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Has it not occurred to you that there may be others who have mental illness problems or frozen shoulders? The difference is that they don't go on and on about it.</p>
<p>As to your contribution to the site, well ......
</p>PluckyMunky on "A paradoxical obserservation"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6973#post-18849
Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:19:53 +0000PluckyMunky18849@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>God, you soon realise who your friends are in this place. None, it seems in my case. I think I have contributed my fair share to NB but what is happening now seems to be a version of bear baiting. It might seem highly amusing to be mentally ill but I can assure you its not. Just be fucking grateful, if you have some degree of normality and stop putting the boot in. Try to imagine it happening to you - if you have any sensibility left at all.
</p>QorbeQ on "A paradoxical obserservation"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6973#post-18839
Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:52:59 +0000QorbeQ18839@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Technically, I'm enjoying the comedy right now. All I need is Rikkor and my life is whole again. Does he work like Beetlejuice? (Rikkor, Rikkor, Rikkor)</p>
<p>Rikkor is Michael Keaton and I claim my five pounds.
</p>Peter on "A paradoxical obserservation"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6973#post-18838
Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:48:22 +0000Peter18838@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>OK, I'll bite. </p>
<p>o b sensible, (an alias for one of the regulars I suspect) you are one to talk all you seem to do is provoke pluckymunky into something like this. </p>
<p>Can't we all act like the adults we're supposed to be and ignore the stuff we don't like/winds us up and just enjoy the comedy? </p>
<p>I realise I've bitten the hook here, so this is my first and last comment on the matter.
</p>o b sensible on "A paradoxical obserservation"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6973#post-18814
Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:30:31 +0000o b sensible18814@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>you really are a troll
</p>PluckyMunky on "A paradoxical obserservation"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6973#post-18811
Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:23:22 +0000PluckyMunky18811@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Sorry, Mr Sensible - a weak attempt at wit. I got a PhD an' all but I appreciate it don't necessessarily make me well educated. Oh, also, there is not really a Nearly New English Bible...sorry, again. </p>
<p>I hope all are well in the Sensible household.
</p>Doctor Moptop on "A paradoxical obserservation"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6973#post-18809
Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:05:39 +0000Doctor Moptop18809@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>There's nothing in the least bit funny about humour.
</p>o b sensible on "A paradoxical obserservation"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6973#post-18806
Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:50:31 +0000o b sensible18806@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>king James not St James, you are either winding people up deliberately or are not very well educated
</p>PluckyMunky on "A paradoxical obserservation"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6973#post-18790
Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:35:54 +0000PluckyMunky18790@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Yes, sorry, Mr Sensible, I was quoting from the Fairly New English Bible and not the St James'. Bless you.
</p>o b sensible on "A paradoxical obserservation"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6973#post-18775
Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:26:50 +0000o b sensible18775@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>the definite article is a lovely word for lunchtime mr q, and by the way Pluckhead it's <em>thou shalt</em>
</p>QorbeQ on "A paradoxical obserservation"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6973#post-18764
Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:35:39 +0000QorbeQ18764@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Perhaps I should have written 'the, definite article'.
</p>PluckyMunky on "A paradoxical obserservation"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6973#post-18746
Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:48:43 +0000PluckyMunky18746@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Sorry about the mistake in spelling 'observation', Mr Tagger. It wasn't a criticism, though, just an...er...observation.</p>
<p>'Languidly', is a lovely word for a Wednesday, Mr Q.
</p>Scroat on "A paradoxical obserservation"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6973#post-18745
Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:47:46 +0000Scroat18745@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>A tall boy doesn't have a penis.
</p>Golgo13 on "A paradoxical obserservation"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6973#post-18737
Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:34:53 +0000Golgo1318737@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Humour is the only thing worth treating seriously. Everything else is a fucking joke.
</p>andhrimnir on "A paradoxical obserservation"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6973#post-18736
Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:31:26 +0000andhrimnir18736@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>there's me thinking you'd read it the "actual articles" from the grammar series.
</p>QorbeQ on "A paradoxical obserservation"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6973#post-18734
Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:21:49 +0000QorbeQ18734@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>Actually, 'actual' was inserted to emphasise 'articles' rather than leave it languidly hanging by itself, or using some visual clue like <strong><em>bold italics</em></strong>, IYSWIM, YMMV, WTF, BBQ, ETC...
</p>PluckyMunky on "A paradoxical obserservation"http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=6973#post-18727
Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:07:44 +0000PluckyMunky18727@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/<p>On the other hand, I think it says in the Bible: 'Why, yea, I beseach thee: laugh at thine own penis and thou shall be glad.'
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